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Keira's revealing new role


(Daily Mail)
Updated: 2007-07-23 16:13




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Keira Knightley gives her best screen performance to date
in the film of Ian McEwan's novel 'Atonement' [Daily Mail]

There's one constituency of Keira Knightley's fans who won't be able to
see her give her best screen performance to date, in the film of Ian
McEwan's novel Atonement.

For the children who dragged their parents to the Pirates Of The
Caribbean movies, Atonement will be off limits because of its adult
subject matter and gripping, but bloody, scenes of injured WWII soldiers.

In the film, sublimely directed by Joe Wright working from Christopher
Hampton's screenplay, Keira plays university graduate Cecilia who finds
herself passionately in love with James McAvoy's Robbie, the handsome
would-be doctor.

One terrific scene shows McAvoy typing Cecilia a note revealing, in
sexually explicit terms, his truest feelings for her, which he then,
mistakenly, has delivered to her.

Later she and McAvoy make love, keeping their clothes on, but all the
zips and buttons are unfastened, in one of the most erotic moments that's
likely to be seen on screen this year.

As the actress commented to me when I spoke to her on the set: "She's a
grown-up and she does grown-up things. I was 17 when I started playing
Elizabeth in the Pirate films and they were fun, but very much meant for
families.

"Now I've grown up and so have the roles."

I caught Atonement a second time this week and I liked it even more than
I did the first.

It's the best film of the year.

The performances - all of them - are outstanding. Saoirse Ronan, Romola
Garai and Vanessa Redgrave play the three ages of Briony Tallis,
Cecilia's younger sister who, by telling an untruth, sets the two lovers
(Keira and McAvoy) off on a journey of love and tragedy.

Atonement opens the Venice Film Festival at the end of August and then
goes on release here in September, making it more than eligible for the
Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar awards.























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